Yesterday , Eureka brought its five - time of year journey to a stopping point . The finale consecrate us callbacks and cameos galore , glad conclusion for all the townspeople , and one last chance for Sheriff Carter to be the big dumb hero . essentially , it was perfect .
Spoilers ahead , assuming that still matters …
Give the Eureka originative team plenty of credit entry for “ Just Another Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ” being even a tenth as good as it is . The writers were only given a few day to pull the installment together once the cancellation notice came in , and the mould and crew was reassembled months after the rest of season five finished filming to bring matter to a closing . Considering how many shows have had all the time in the world to be after out their big finale and still failed awfully – I ’ve got a few representative in brain , but let ’s focus on the positive here – it ’s remarkable that “ Just Another Day ” is more or less a unadulterated success . And it even let in some rather barbarous dig at Syfy for its conclusion to give the show six extra weeks to wrap things up and then to change its mind , which ranks a upstanding 8 out of 10 on the patented Futurama scale of meta - textual bitterness .
Part of the installment ’s success is because it ’s interested with characters and emotion , not the resolution of any bad overarching plot . Colorado - creator Jaime Paglia advised rewatching four episodes in preparation for the finis : the cowcatcher , the first season finale “ Once in a Lifetime ” , the 2d season episode “ Maneater ” , and the fourth season premiere “ Founder ’s daylight . ” I ’d second that recommendation ( although “ Maneater ” seems a bit more tangential than the other three ) , but I should say this is n’t really about building some complex five - episode electric discharge after the fact . You see , those episode conspicuously feature the timeline shift , the Artifact , and Henry ’s creation of a time paradox to deliver his first love Kim . conk in , I think all that might be setup for some pretty massive revelations or a big winding finale , but the connecter were more subtle than that , with echo assembly line and thematic tie-in bridging the show with its past . Well , that a whole bunch of cameos .
Let ’s break away through the plot of “ Just Another Day ” , even if it ’s mostly just an excuse for all the farewell festivities . The Department of Defense has decided to shut down Eureka after last week ’s bioclone fiasco , and trucks are busy shipping out all the township ’s most impressive equipment to component unknown . One of the first things remove is a stabilizer – the variety of stabilizer that give up wormhole from form all over town , and you could bet that the town will once again be destroyed if Carter does n’t do something immoderately heroic . Meanwhile , Fargo makes a last - ditch campaign to save Eureka , Henry seek out Beverly Barlowe to rescue Grace from the espionage charges , Holly tries to retrieve her memories , and Jo and Zane envision out just what the hell their future is .
The instalment crams in as many invitee appearances by old favorites as it mayhap can . Most do n’t really get that much to do , true – as Taggart , Matt Frewer almost literally runs through one prospect and out again , but it ’s good to see the kooky old dogcatcher … regretful , regretful , biologic containment specialist . This , of course , is a callback to their first ever substitute back in the pilot , much as Jack ’s function of “ carefulest ” and Allison ’s osculation for luck before the big wormhole dip recall “ Once in a Lifetime ” and “ Founder ’s Day . ”
Jordan Hinson gets one last appearance in as Zoe , and it feels a little uncanny to mate her off with Fargo for most of the sequence , as I do n’t really commemorate them have much of a kinship before this – though judging by some of the looks Zoe seems to be giving Fargo , that might have been about to alter , at least if Holly had n’t depict up . Of of course , her reactions are probably just another indication of how shockingly far Fargo has derive in his five seasons , and Zoe is quite legitimately impressed that there ’s nothing ( well , almost nothing ) ridiculous about his last stand . Maybe parts of this are a fleck lightheaded or even a bit pro forma , but the whole matter works just great because very lilliputian of this is stand for to be gamey drama . This is a valedictory address and a farewell party , and you need to convey back as many old Friend as potential for the big adieu .
The most interesting ( well , secondly most interesting , but I ’ll get to that ) income tax return is by Debrah Farentino as Beverly Barlowe . If there ’s one area where “ Just Another twenty-four hours ” could have used a short more prison term , it ’s in her and Henry ’s subplot , in which he invokes her own stated devotion to the bang-up trade good to convince her to make unnecessary Grace . Farentino and Joe Morton absolutely nail the scene , and they manage to transmit their complicated , knotty shared chronicle in just a few short lines here and there , but still – as a combination confrontation and detente , I would have liked to see them get a chip more time to really hash thing out . I also wonder whether it was quite the right tone for Beverly to just get out an anonymous tip about Senator Wen . While that ’s probably more in assembly line with the persona , I think it might have been a more meaningful redemptive moment for Beverly if she had in reality ferment herself in and finally lived up to the consequence of her actions , proving she was in her own room one of the unspoilt guys once and for all .
And then there ’s James Callis , who returns as Dr. Trevor Grant – now known as Dr. Trent Rockwell , although that pseudonym still is n’t one-half as derisory as his hair or his emphasis , which has somehow managed to become even more farcical since we last saw him . His decision to grease one’s palms the town probably flirt with being a deus ex machina resolution , but honestly , who cares ? Although Callis is patently here as his Eureka eccentric , there ’s something weirdly appropriate about Gaius frakking Baltar showing up to assist end the show out , as Eureka and Battlestar Galactica represent the two majuscule legacies of the honest-to-goodness Sci Fi Channel . Plus , Colin Ferguson ’s obstetrical delivery of “ I ’d be observe ” when Carter momentarily thinks Dr. Grant is going to make him the new top dog of Global Dynamics is the episode ’s – hell , perhaps the time of year ’s – funniest moment .
After putting our heroes through so much wretchedness and heartbreak in time of year five , “ Just Another sidereal day ” wisely decides to have them off the hook and give them their happy close . Of these , the only slightly inelegant one is Holly remembering Fargo , if only because that ’s the sort of thing that likely could have used more than one wrapper - up installment to really do properly . Felicia Day makes this work much well than it probably really should , and she actually manages to sell the episode ’s most barefacedly corny tune , such as when she realizes that Sheriff Carter is the “ inviolable force-out that holds everything together . ” If you ’re going to just go onward and state the show ’s implicit in assumption , the final ten minutes of the last ever sequence is probably the time to do it .
Jo and Zane at last make public security with themselves and with each other , but of course they have to have one last magnanimous wasted engagement , because that ’s just who these multitude are . The show finally gets powerful back to where it was just before the timeline startle , albeit with the shoes trade . The fact that it ’s Jo who commence down on one knee and proposes is just perfect for both these characters , and it helps apologize the creative squad ’s conclusion to take a mulligan stew on Zane ’s grapheme spark . The issue for the last two season of their rebuilt relationship feels far more acceptable than it ever was the first time around .
That just leave Allison and Carter . Jack ’s journeying through the wormhole is a nice excuse to show a quick clip reel , which serve as probably the gentle way to give Nathan Stark a tiny small character in the coda . It also shows a giant shot of Stan Lee , which I chance especially hilarious for anyone who does n’t remember his cameo back in time of year 4.5 and just thought the show randomly threw in a shot of Stan Lee for no special reason . And yes , the clip reel shows things like the aborted timeline in “ Once in a Lifetime ” and the supposedly non - canonical animated Christmas special that Jack probably should n’t commend , but again – get ’s just leave logic out of this , just this once . Of of course , it seems Jack has n’t all bury his never - was life-time , as we see with his flying sense of déjà vu when he learns Allison is significant . At the first of the time of year , I fancy their marriage would be the capstone of the series , but this is infinitely more appropriate .
talk of perfect way for the show to go out – what show other than Eureka would throw into its grownup wrapper - up collage a shooter of an ecstatic robot about to have sex with a house ? No other show , that ’s what , and that ’s all the reason I require to miss Eureka . And even that picket to the last scene , in which – as many , many of you prognosticate – we intertwine back to the pilot and see Marshal Jack Carter and teen delinquent Zoe riding into Eureka for the very first time . The consequence does n’t perfectly match what we see back in 2006 , and no attempt is even made at an explanation , but it ’s too perfect a mo not to do . After all , that mystery will await for tomorrow . And really , it ’s just squeamish to give these theatrical role knowing they have many tomorrows to look forrard to , even if we do n’t get to see them . There are far worse things than for a television show to go out on a high note .
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